Coin package



March 10, 1942. B. H, FREEDMAN COIN PACKAGE Filed March 15, 1940 INVENTOR BfN/AM ATTO R N EY Patented Mar. 10, 1942 UNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE COIN PACKAGE Benjamin H. Freedman, Asbury Park, N. J. Application March 15, 1940, Serial No. 324,094

4 Claims.

This invention relates in general to coin packages and to wrappers for coins.

Among the objects of the present invention it is aimed to provide an improved wrapper for coins, especially for wrapping small change such as pennies in packages of two or more so that the same can be dispensed as a unit and avoid the loss of time counting small change, such for instance as two cents or three cents inchange, so frequently necessary today where sales taxes are imposed.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide an improved package for small change consisting of a wrapper which will readily facilitate the packaging of the small change and yieldably anchor it against removal, the wrapping element however of which can be quickly removed when desired to remove the small change from the package.

7 More specifically, it is an object of the present invention to provide a wrapper composed of a.

material that is at least partly yieldable to facilitate receiving the coins by having sufiicient elasticity to retract after receiving the coin effectively to anchor the coins in the package.

More specifically, it is also an object of the invention to provide a Wrapper composed of a material that will frictionally anchor the coins against ready removal after once having been positioned in the package.

These and other features, capabilities and advantages of the invention will appear from the sub-joined detail description of specific embodiments thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective of one embodiment of the invention; a

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan of the wrapper blank before being formed into a coin receiving tube or 'envelope;

Fig. 4 is a plan of a wrapper blank of another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is a perspective of a package made with the wrapper illustrated in Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a plan of a wrapper blank of still another embodiment;

Fig. 7 is a perspective of a package'made with the wrapper blank illustrated in Fig. 6; and

Fig. 8 is a perspective of a wrapper blank of still another embodiment.

In the embodiment illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, there is shown a wrapper I, see Fig. 3, having a main face 2, the dimension of which from the edge 3 to the edge 4 substantially equals the diameter of the coins, as an instance, the coins 5 of Figs. 1 and 2, but the dimension of the face 2 from the edge 6 to the edge 1 is considerably less than the diameter of the coins 5, so that when the coins are wrapped, the edges 3 and 4 practicallyaline with the edges'of the coins 5, and the edges of the coins, see Fig. 1, extend beyond the edges 6 and 1.

The face 2' is connected to a flap 8 by the connecting portions 9 and ill and to the flap H by the connecting portions I 2 and I3. The flap II preferably has at one end thereof a gummed area M which practically corresponds in area to the area of the flap 8 so that, see Fig. 1, when the blank I is folded into the position shown in Fig. 1 and the area I4 is moistened and pressed against the outer surface of the flap 8, the resulting face formed by the flaps II and 8 will correspond in area to the area of the face 2, and the end portions of the package consisting on one side in theconnecting portions l2 and I3, and on the other side in the connecting portions 9 and H), have rectangular openings [5 and It formed in the ends through which theiedges of the coins 5 extend as shown'in Fig. 1.

Preferably, to facilitate folding the blank I, the same is provided with the creases or scorings IT and I8 alining with the edge l9 of the window 18 and forming one edge of the flap 8, 'also provided with the creases or s-corings 20 and 2| alining with the edge 1 of the window l6 and forming one edge of the face 2, also provided with the creases or scorings 22 and 23 alining with the edge 6 of the window l5 and forming one edge of the face 2, and also provided with the creases or 'scorings 24 and 25 alining with the edge 26 of the window [5 and forming one edge of the flap l l. The blank I obviously will be provided with four folds before gluing the area l4 onto the flap 8, one fold coinciding with the dotted line H, edge l9 and dotted line l8, a second fold coinciding with the dotted line 20, edge 1 and dotted line 2|, a third fold coinciding with the dotted line 22, edge 6' and dotted line 23,"and a fourth fold coinciding with the dotted line 24, edge 26 and dotted line 25.

The dimensions of the connecting portions 9 and ID from the dotted line 20 to the dotted line [1, and from the dotted line 2| to the dotted line H; respectively,. and also the dimensions of the connecting'portions I2 and I3 from the dotted line 24' to the dotted line 22, and from the dotted line 25 to the dotted line 23 respectively, are identical to one another and equal to the thickness of a plurality of coins for which the package is intended, in the present instance, equal to the thickness of the three coins 5. This fit is intended to be so precise and snug that it will be necessary first to slip in two coins and finally slip in the third coin, the dimension of the face 2 from the edge 6 to the edge I with a slight slack provided by the end portions 9, ill, 12 and I3, permitting the easy entrance of two coins and requiring a slight stretching of these connecting portions 9, l0, l2 and 13 when the third coin is thereafter slipped into place. The material of which the blank I is composed is preferably slightly stretchable such as heavy paper, semicardboard, elastic paper fabric, or the like, which is just sufficiently elastic to permit the snug reception of the plurality of coins for which the envelope is made, but sufiiciently retractable so that the coins when once received or slipped into the envelope, will be securely anchored against accidental removal.

Instead of a single sheet of material such as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, a laminated sheet 21 such as illustrated in Fig. 8 may be provided,

consisting as an instance of two sheets of paper- 28 and 29 with rubber glue or rubber cement securing the two sheets together, and cooperating with the two sheets of paper to impart a stretchable or elastic characteristic to the laminated sheet, or else a laminated sheet such as Pliofilm is used, or else a laminated sheet consisting of a sheet of metal foil and paper bonded together, or a sheet of moldable metal and paper bonded together, or paper and fabric bonded together, or paper and latex bonded together, or glassine paper or ordinary paper bonded together with either Cellophane or a nitrate cellulose sheet or a sheet having an acetate base. In order to increase the stretchability, either the sheet I or the laminated sheet 2! during the positioning of the coins in the package, and the connecting portions such as an instance 30, 3|, 32 and '33 of the blank 34 illustrated in Fig. 4, may be provided with transversely extending corrugations as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

From the foregoing it will appear that the elasticity or retractability of the wrappers will cooperate with the extended friction-creating faces provided as an instance by the inside of the face 2 of the wrapper shown in Fig. 3 and the inside of the combined face formed by the flaps B and II to anchor the coins against accidental removal, such extended friction-creating faces, see Fig. 2, snugly engaging the outer raised portions of the coins to create the co-efficient of friction required to anchor the coins against accidental displacement. With certain materials, the corrugations illustrated'in Fig. 6 extending longitudinally of the blank 35 there shown such as the corrugations at the connecting portions 36, 31, 38 and 39, have certain decided advantages. In the first place, if the coins are inserted only from one end as an instance, the end 43 of the package, see Fig. 'I, then the corrugations 38 and 38 will not have been stretched and the end 4| will retain its original anchoring power, and only the corrugations 39 and 31 will have been slightly weakened by forcing the coins through the end 40. However, as aforesaid, since sufficient slack is provided by the connecting portions 36, 31, 3B and 39, when only two of three coins are initially inserted to receive the same without stretching the connecting portions 31 and 39 if the coins are inserted through the end 48, the stretching on the connecting portions 31 and 39 will only take place when the last or third coin is inserted and then not only the connecting portions 31 and 39 are required to yield, but the main faces of the blank in a lateral direction as an instance in the direction between the edges 42 and 43 will be required to take up a part of the stretch and consequently the elasticity or retractability of the blank'35 will cooperate with the corrugations 36, 31, 38 and 39 to grip the final coin and consequently the three coins in position against accidental removal.

The package here provided has certain decided advantages. In the first place, a minimum amount of material is required, the two ends, as an instance, the ends 40 and 4! of the package remaining open. In the next place, the blanks I, 21, 34 or 35 can be cut from a strip of material corresponding in width to the blank. Still furthermore, the conventional machines today in use can easily be converted to cut a blank I, 21, 34 or 35, deposit the adhesive coating l4, see Fig. 3, fold the strip, and finally glue the flaps 8 and II to one another to form the envelope or tube shown in Figs. 1, 2, 5 and 7.

Still furthermore, the resulting envelope or tube shown in Figs. 1, 5 and 7 presents a large, uninterrupted area, as an instance, the outer surface of the face 2, outer face of the portion 44 and the outer face 45 of the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 1, the outer surface of the portion 46 and the outer face 41 of the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 5, and the outer surface of the portion 48 and the outer face 49 of the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 7 to receive advertising matter, printed matter and the like. And still furthermore, these packages will be used to great advantage with the cashiers of cigar counters in hotels, restaurants, and the like in those states and cities where sales taxes are imposed and small change, particularly in the denominations of two and three pennies are today required to be counted with almost every sale. With these packages, the cashier may have the two-cent, three-cent and even four-cent packages grouped together and quickly expedite her change-making performance by selecting from these different groups the ready-made odd change of two cents, three cents and four cents.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made to the details of construction Without departing from the general spirit of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A coin wrapper for wrapping around a stack of coins so to leave diametrically opposed edges of the coins exposed, comprising an elongated sheet of flexible, yieldable material having a pair of spaced slots transverse to the length thereof, the material between the slots being adapted to overliepart of one end of the stack and being of a length less than the diameter of said coins, the height of said slots also being less than said diameter whereby to allow only said diametrically opposed edges to project therethrough, respecively, the combined width of the material at each side of the slots being greater than the width of said material between the slots and forming overlapping flaps for covering part of the other end of said stack, and fastening means for holding said overlapping flaps together.

2. A coin wrapper as claimed in claim 1, the width of said slots being substantially equal to the height of said stack.

3. A coin wrapper as claimed in claim 1, the material at each end of said slots being pleated.

4. A coin wrapper as claimed in claim 1, the material at each end of said slots having pleats therein extending crosswise of said elongated sheet.

BENJAMIN H. FREEDMAN 

